Roman Alphabet by Nicolaus Jensen

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Caius Julius Solinus. Polyhistor, sive De Mirabilibus Mundi. Venice: Nicolaus Jensen, 1473.

Nicolaus Jensen, one of the most important printer/typographers of his day, devised a handsome, well-proportioned Roman alphabet that it's served as a model to the present day.

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Roman Alphabet by Nicolaus Jensen

03. The 15th Century at Lehigh

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Leaves of the Gutenberg Bible
Book of Hours
- Leaves
Vergil's Aenead
Pliny the Elder
- Missing Initial
- Colophon
Plutarch
- Decorated Initials
- Notes
Commentarii
Sphaera Mundi
Petrarch
- The Modern Page
- Missing Initial
Print Types
Liber Chronicarum
- Decorated Text
- Illustration
Asinus Aureus
De Muliere Forti

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